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What if the dock was abolished in criminal courts?

  • Date: 22 Jan 2020

  • Location: Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ

What if the dock was abolished in criminal courts?

Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 6–8pm

Panel:

An event to launch a think piece by Professor Linda Mulcahy, University of Oxford, Dr Emma Rowden, Oxford Brookes University and Associate Professor Meredith Rossner, which advocates for the abolition of the dock in English and Welsh courtrooms and stimulate debate among practitioners on how to challenge the routine use of the dock for child and adult defendants in criminal proceedings.

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